PM urged to apologise for calling working-class men 'criminal and feckless'

Mr Johnson also criticised the 'appalling proliferation of single mothers' and blamed successive Tory and Labour governments for 'failing to restrict the public emoluments available to this group.' The PM, who was the assistant editor of the Daily Telegraph at the time, also suggested social housing was 'an enticement' for young women to have children. Labour's Ian Lavery, an ex-miner, told the Daily Mirror: 'These are outrageous remarks from a man out of touch with reality and whose ignorance and hatred of working-class communities knows no bounds. He adds: 'Something must be found, first, to restore women's desire to be married.  'That means addressing the feebleness of the modern Briton, his reluctance or inability to take control of his woman and be head of a household.  Gallery: Boris Johnson: Career in pictures (Photo Services) Born Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson on June 19, 1964, he is the eldest son of Stanley Johnson, a British politician who was the Conservative MEP for Wight & Hampshire East from 1979 to 1984.  Boris was schooled at Eton College, where he won a scholarship, and later at Balliol College, Oxford. He was also the president of the Oxford Union – a position previously held by former Prime Minister Edward Heath (1916-2005) and former Conservative leaderWilliam Hague. Of his time at The Telegraph, Johnson remarked; “Everything I wrote from Brussels was having this amazing, explosive effect on the Tory party, and it really gave me this, I suppose, rather weird sense of power”.   In 1994, he became a political columnist for The Spectator, and later went on to become the editor of the magazine in 1999, a role he continued until 2005. A few years later, Johnson again stood for Parliament and was elected as an MP for the Conservative seat of Henley-on-Thames in 2001, replacing Michael Heseltine. Despite being embroiled in various scandals at the time, including the publication of an insensitive editorial about the city of Liverspool in The Spectator in 2003 and an alleged affair with a journalist, Johnson was re-elected as a Member of Parliament in 2005.  Even after he was let go from his position as Shadow Minister for the Arts due to his alleged extramarital dealings, in 2005 he became the Shadow Minister for Higher Education after David Cameron was elected leader of the Conservative Party.  The year 2008 saw Johnson become the Mayor of London after he was elected over two-time office holder, Ken Livingstone. A year before his term as Mayor ended in 2016, Johnson won the Uxbridge and South Ruislip seat and thus returned to Parliament in 2015.